On 13.06.2014 18:14, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > In second 5.3 of the GNU GRUB 2.00 manual, there is a statement > "Currently autogenerating config files for multi-boot environments > depends on os-prober and has several shortcomings." > > I agree. Os-prober and the way it works with 30_os-prober is fragile at > best and sometimes produces incorrect configurations. > > Personally, I use a variation of the manually configured option > described in section 5.3: I install a very small system and then use > /etc/grub.d/40_custom to provide my multi-boot options ... mostly by > chainloading configfile. > > In section 5.3, there is also mention of "fixing it is scheduled for the > next release" and "it" refers to os-prober. OK, what is the story? Is > anything being done to improve easy configuration for multi-boot? > "it" does not refer to os-prober but to autogeneration. It's not that easy that's why it was postponed. The main problem is to avoid infinite recursion. > Just what is the status of using/depending-on os-prober? > > Some distributions such as SUSE, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu (?) believe that > users want some type of auto-config which enables them to bootup their > old systems when a new install replaces the MBR and points to this newly > install system. > > Comments? > > Gene > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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